David Griggs, RMetS President, past vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme:
"Why the use of weather and climate information is essential for SDG implementation"
Monique Kuglitsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunication, speaking on:
"Nature can be disruptive, so can technology: ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management"
Prof. Lena M Tallaksen, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo :
"Drought in a changing climate – a pan-European view "
For details on the speakers see: https://www.emetsoc.org/ems2021-plenary-speakers/
PANDEMIC-PROOF: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE
The theme of this conference is “the sustainable development goals”. The Cambridge dictionary defines sustainability as “the quality of being able to continue over a period of time”.
The 2019 coronavirus outbreak has forced us to drastically limit our mobility and thereby affected the way we live and work. As much as we would like to go back to normal, we may as well take a moment to reflect on the sustainability of that status quo. Not just because the root sources for a potential new outbreak have not been taken away, but also because the rapid adaptation to this new situation may have created opportunities for structural change.
In this special session we will ask ourselves how we, as a scientific community, can make our everyday research practice more sustainable and resilient.
Which elements of the former status quo do we really want to get back, and which of the new (digital) possibilities do we embrace? Should we foster the possibility of online or hybrid conferences? Maybe we can move all presentations to youtube, so that conferences can focus more on discussion and collaboration? Will our new digital teaching materials change the way we teach in the classroom? Do we keep our home offices and transform the office buildings to meeting spaces? Will international collaboration be boosted by improved online meeting platforms?
And how do we, as a community, respond to global threads like climate change or a virus outbreak? Should we limit our mobility for good? What expertise (e.g. data-assimilation, uncertainty communication) do we have that can help to provide rapid insight into global crises, and how do we make sure other fields also have access to our data, knowledge and methodologies? What other risks can we identify, and how can we best prepare for those risks? When it comes to climate change, what can we learn from the global responses to this more abrupt global crisis?
ABOUT THE FORMAT
This is planned to be an interactive session in which we try to gather as much input as possible from the participants, and also encourage lively discussions and debates. With a very short introduction to spark off ideas and interest and explain the concept, the various topics are then discussed in smaller groups in break out areas.
At the end a short plenary wrap up could collect the ideas; key points that came out could be exhibited during the remainder of, or after the conference.
Public information:
This event will take place in gather.town. Registered participants will see a link appear shortly before the start of the event. You can also find the room through the "networking" area in the virtual venue here: https://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2021/vcc/entrance_hall.html
This session - in connection with Session PSE6 Serving society – furthering science – developing applications: Meet our awardees - part II on Tuesday 7 Sep and PSE 11 Silver Medal Ceremony on Thursday 9 Sep - will highlight all the 2021 Awardees of the EMS, Tromp Foundation and Harry Otten Foundation.
Opening Day on Friday, 3 September 2021at 16:00
The programme for Friday 3 September will give the floor to the following award recipients who have prepared short statements on how their work benefits society:
-> Outstanding Poster Awardee 2019
-> EMS Journalistic Awardee 2021
-> EMS Outreach & Communication Award Winners 2021
-> Tromp Foundation Conference Awards for Young Scientists (TFCAYS) 2021
-> EMS Tromp Awardee for an outstanding achievement in biometeorology 2021
-> EMS Young Scientist Conference Awardees (YSCAs) 2021
-> EMS Young Scientist Awardees 2021
Session PSE6 on Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 16:45, will give the floor the the recipient of the
-> EMS Outstanding contribution Awardee 2021, and the
-> EMS Technology Achievement Awardee 2021.
-> Harry Otten will reveal the winner of the 2021 Harry Otten Prize. Finalists for this prize will present their ideas in session PSE4 on Monday (6 September 2021) afternoon: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2021/session/41705
Session PSE11 on Thursday, 9 September 2021, 16:45:
-> Silver Medal Laudation by Søren Ejling Larsen
-> Silver Medal Lecture by Erik Lundtang Petersen
A substantial part of the national gross product in many countries is weather dependent. National weather services and the private sector have been innovative for more than a century to make better use of our meteorological knowledge. However, large gains are still to be made and this prize encourages individuals and groups to come with ideas how meteorology in a practical way can further move society forward. Meteorology can make society safer, can deliver costs savings and can bring more welfare to large groups of people. More information about the Prize and the Foundation can be found at http://www.harry-otten-prize.org.
Applications for the 2021 Harry Otten Prize were possible until March. The jury selects three finalists who will give presentations at the EMS Annual Meeting explaining their ideas. The prize winner will be announced in the Awards Session on Tuesday 7 September 2021.
Professor Sergej S. Zilitinkevich (born in 1936 in Leningrad), our long-standing convener of the Boundary Layer Session at EMS, passed away on February 15, 2021. He will be remembered for his pioneering work in the physics of atmospheric turbulence and planetary boundary layers, but also for the energy and passion he displayed in all aspects of his work and last not least his unique personality. He was always developing new ideas even in his 80s.
This special session will bring some of co-workers along his career to bring forward some of his main contributions to science together with some personal memories and experience about working with him.
All participants to the session are welcome to air their own memories about Sergej, or how his ideas and papers may have influenced their work.
The indicative content will be:
Sylvain Joffre: Intro
Dmitrii Mironov: PBL depth
Christof Lüpkes: Nonlocal parametrization of turbulent fluxes
Yulia Troitskaya: Air-sea interaction
Alexander Baklanov: Air quality and urban parametrisations
Markku Kulmala: The Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX)
Igor Esau: Climatic implications of the PBL turbulence
Free discussion involving the whole audience
Obituary for Sergej Zilitinkevich by Sylvain Joffre and Heinke Schlünzen: https://www.emetsoc.org/obituary-for-sergej-zilitinkevich/
This session - in connection with Session PSE3 Serving society – furthering science – developing applications: Meet our awardees - part I on Friday 3 Sep and PSE 11 Silver Medal Ceremony on Thursday 9 Sep - will highlight all the 2021 Awardees of the EMS, Tromp Foundation and Harry Otten Foundation.
Public information:
Harry Otten Prize Ceremony
This Session will give the floor to two EMS Awardees and present live the relevation who will win the Harry Otten Prize 2021.
EMS Outstanding Contribution Awardee 2021: Frank Beyrich, DWD
EMS Technology Achievement Awardee 2021: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, KNMI
Harry Otten Prize Ceremony
chaired by Pam Emch, Chair of the Harry Otten Board
Harry Otten and the three Finalists: Moritz Mauz, Joshua Soderholm and Kirien Whan.
The three finalists present their ideas in session PSE4 on Monday 6 September 2021.
Unfortunately, this year's EMS has to take place in a virtual format. Due to the Corona pandemic, opportunities for early career scientists (ECS) to meet new people at live conferences have diminished over the past year. Therefore, we would like to organise an ECS icebreaker at the start of the conference to counteract for this deficit. This event will be hosted by the MeteoXchange project. This project has the following objective: strengthening atmospheric exchange processes - an international network for meteorologists.
At the beginning of the event, different countries or their meteorological societies will have the opportunity to briefly present research opportunities in their countries in the field of meteorology to give young scientists an insight into the many different projects and possibilities. Afterwards, there will be the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas in an informal atmosphere. We therefore encourage all ECS to attend this event to meet other young scientists before the session programme starts.
The icebreaker will take place in gather.town in the Events room.
This session will highlight two solicited presentations on two very diverse topics that are of high relevance to the broader community.
Monday, 6 September 2021, 16:45 (CEST) Susan Joslyn, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, US, will speak about: Uncertainty Information & Non-Expert Decisions.
Tuesday, 7 September 2021, 16:45 (CEST) Leonhard Scheck, Hans-Ertel-Centre / LMU Munich, will speak about Using visible satellite images for model evaluation and data assimilation.
Seven women discuss their work and life experiences in meteorology and related fields. They review the progress or lack thereof made during the past three decades in efforts to create gender balance and equality in the global weather enterprise – how far have we come? How far do we still have to go?
The recording of the event in March is available at https://www.gweforum.org/gender-equality-in-gwe/
All contributors will be present for a live discussion with all conference participants.
The EU has recently adopted its new Framework Programme for Research & Innovation called Horizon Europe (HE) with a budget of 95 billion euros over 7 years (2021-2027). It includes many fundamental and application science areas where the meteorological and climate community at large can contribute to and benefit from funding.
The event will include an introduction by Dr. Adrian Broad (UK Met Office and EUMETNET) to the three pillars of HE, followed by more insights for our community into the most relevant clusters and connections with the important HE missions. This will include among others: climate systems and extreme weather; sustainable and intelligent transport systems in the air, on the road or seas; space weather and earth observation; renewable energy and agriculture sectors; the ocean and marine environment; heat waves and air pollution impact on health; technology and the digital economy; or safe systems for critical infrastructures. To conclude, links between HE and other relevant EU programmes will be made, focussing on Copernicus, Digital Europe and the Civil Protection Mechanism.
Afterwards, the floor will be open for questions from the audience.
This session - in connection with Session PSE3 Serving society – furthering science – developing applications: Meet our awardees - part I on Friday 3 Sep and PSE 6
Serving society – furthering science – developing applications: Meet our awardees - part II on Tuesday 7 Sep - will highlight all the 2021 Awardees of the EMS, Tromp Foundation and Harry Otten Foundation.
Public information:
Silver Medal Ceremony
Silver Medal Laudation by Søren Ejling Larsen, DTU
Silver Medal Lecture by Erik Lundtang Petersen, EMS Silver MedalList 2021 Silver Medal Lecture: Wind Energy Meteorology for Sustainable Development
Tomas Molina is the Chief Meteorologist of Televisió de Catalunya in Barcelona, a position he has held since 1987. He has vast experience in the entire broadcast media industry, working on radio broadcasting and TV Weather Forecasting. He is an Associate Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona and recently became European Climate Pact Ambassador of the European Union. He also serves on the Board of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM) as one of the Vice Presidents. He has a degree in Physics and currently working on a PhD in Science Communication from University of Barcelona.
Tomas Molina will give the Keynote Presentation of the Programme Stream Engagement with Society:
Mike Farrar is the director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). NCEP delivers national and global weather, water, climate and space weather guidance, forecasts, warnings and analyses to help save lives and protect property. As director, Mike oversees the planning, science and technology, and operational responsibilities related to NCEP’s nine national centers. In his previous roles, Mike served as the Chief Scientist for weather operations for the U.S. Air Force (USAF), senior VP and chief operating officer of the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR), director of the Environmental Modeling (EMC) and the Meteorological Development Laboratory (MDL) in NWS, and VP of strategic and business development for Science and Technology Corporation. He began his career as a uniformed USAF meteorologist where he served for 24 years in several leadership positions in forecast operations, scientific development, program management, training, budgeting, planning/policy, and collaboration with U.S. and international partners. Mike holds a B.S. in physics from Purdue University, a B.S. in meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. in national resource strategy from the Eisenhower School of the National Defense University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology from Florida State University.
Mike Farrar will give the Keynote Presentation of the Programme Stream Operational Systems and Applications
The state of weather, water and climate services in the U.S. and strategic challenges for the next decade: the perspective from the American Meteorological Society and U.S. National Weather Service
Julia Schmale is assistant professor at École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, where she heads the Extreme Environments Research Laboratory (EERL) since 2019. Her research focuses on how the ocean, land, cryosphere and human activities influence the chemical and microphysical composition of the atmosphere, and the resulting effects on climate and air quality. The main study regions are the Arctic, Antarctica, Southern Ocean and high altitudes, where she deploys aerosol and trace gas instrumentation on aircraft, research vessels, ground-based observatories and tethered balloons. Prior to founding the EERL, Julia was part of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, where she started as a postdoc and then headed the molecular cluster and particle processes research group. Throughout her career, Julia has been engaged in science-policy interaction, a direction she pursued in particular as scientist at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany, after having obtained her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. Currently Julia represents Switzerland in the international steering group of the MOSAiC expedition, the Atmosphere Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee, and she is a lead author on the forthcoming report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme’s expert group on short-lived climate forcers.
Julia Schmale will give the Keynote Presentation of the Programme Stream Understanding Weather & Climate Processes:
Measurements of Atmospheric Variability during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Expedition
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